FEQ 2018 opens with big name stars, new features

In 2015, David Grohl, seated on his special “throne,” and the Foo Fighters were forced to end their performance after only 20 minutes when a violent thunderstorm and a deluge descended on the Plains of Abraham. Let’s hope the rain on the Plains doesn’t drown them out when they return to the Bell Stage on July 9.

With a lineup that includes a rare appearance by Canadian rock legend Neil Young, the much-anticipated return of the Foo Fighters and young sensations Lorde, Shawn Mendes and The Weeknd, the 2018 edition of Quebec’s massive 11-day Festival d’Été (FEQ) aims to meet the annual and increasingly difficult challenge of outdoing itself.